Fess team or capital shipping group Julia Podolski, They hired me for a job and never paid, asked for banking info and to fill out all types of tax forms Baltimore Maryland

 Hi I was scammed by them too, I’m so sorry you went through that. I Also filed a report on this site about my experience. What steps did you take to protect yourself? What type of advice would you offer.

 Hi Michael can you please tell me what all did you do to protect yourself afterwards? I was also working for them from 12/2019-01/2020 for 30 days before I realized it was a scam.

I also filed a report in ripoff.com as well. I hope you’re doing well and recovering from whatever damages they have caused you.

A criminal likely outside this jurisdiction is not going to enter into a contract with you for anything.  Not even the original e-mail constitutes a job offer, so there was nothing for you to accept.  The rest of your e-mails are meaningless if the original e-mail was not an offer. 

You just assumed it was an offer - legally it wasn't.  However, thinking as you did, you were strung along, just as a good con does, you were shipped stolen items in order to launder all of the items away from the attention of the actual criminals, and now you want to be paid?  No, criminals don't legally pay people.

This scam is REALLY old.  I mean REALLY old.  The internet just made it much more effective for them to scam people.  Work from home jobs, especially shipping jobs, are mostly scams.

You got scammed, as the other person posted your "job" was to actually receive goods paid for with stolen credit cards or other fraudlent means and send them onto another person who is either just another dupe in the chain or someone related to the criminal.

Scammers like this set up fake web sites that were again paid for with stolen credit cards. They set up fake VoIP phones or throw-away cell phones again paid for with stolen funds. Which means that within a very short time they will be disconnected and shut down leaving you no way to contact them...of course they just start up again with new names and numbers. Even though they gave you a Baltimore Address you can be guaranteed that they are not in Baltimore, in fact the chances of them being in the US is slim to none.

These types of scams use similar company names to legitimate companies. So there is actually a company like that name, but it is headquartered no where near Baltimore, nor is it located in a Residential Condominum building.

Now, the bad news. Since you are basically receiving and sending off stolen goods, if the police or Federal officals ever recover these items unlike the scammers they have your real address information. Meaning that you may expect a knock at your door one day with several officials wanting an explanation of your part in this, with luck you will be able to convince them that you didn't know the items were stolen.

As for your contract. Please take a few minutes and re-read the "contract" you are posting along with their messages. Just how many errors do you see with the messages that they are sending? Does that sound like a legitimate company or someone learning English for the first time?

I have copies of everything to contact every customer that had something shipped with your company and I can also provide copies.

- Great, if you truly have that then take all of those documents to your local law enforcement and explain the sitution. If by chance you were the last link before it got sent to the scammers they may be able to track some of the items down, that is unless you sent the items out of the Country.

If you are really interested in proof, you are only a few hundred miles from Baltimore, go ahead and take a drive to where they say they are located.  But don't be shocked if you get there and there is no proof of this company.

Don't believe what we are saying just take a look at what information is out there

USPS
https://about.usps.com/publications/pub300a/pub300a_v04_revision_072019_tech_022.htm

US Postal Inpection Service
https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/work-from-home-scams-and-reshipping-schemes-2/

BBB
https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/17775-beware-of-work-at-home-reshipping-scam

Monster.com
https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/money-laundering-reshipping-scams

 I have a copy of the contract as well. Your company needs to dig deep and come up with the funds that are owed to me asap! I have all copies of the paperwork that was sent to me and also all copies of everything that I had shipped,from gold,to clothes to pocket books, guitars from guitar center,.

I have copies of everything to contact every customer that had something shipped with your company and I can also provide copies. Just how far to do you to take this!

Scammers like this use Indeed, Monster, Careerbuilder, and others to find suckers who really don't understand anything about working from home, contract jobs, and the like.  Botton line:  you never accepted a job offer - what you did legally was offer yourself to them for a job since their e-mail does not constitute a job offer.  Lots of people like you have been taken advantage of in a scam like this, and a lot more will.  The criminals will simply change the name of their company, and your report becomes useless.

To really understand how badly you were duped - the packages you received were stolen from elsewhere and the UPS/FedEX accounts they used to send you the items were either stolen, or someone else was duped to send the items to you. 

Even if the police wised up and tracked down the stolen items, they would find you....had you known the items were stolen, then you'd be charged with receiving stolen property.  When you deal with thieves who have no problem stealing property, you'll find they have less of a problem not paying you for your time in shipping stuff.

The next time you receive an e-mail for a job you did not apply to from a job site, simply delete the e-mail and move on your merry way.  Also, don't ever consider a job working from home - virtually all of them are scam jobs.